calmasahinducow posted:

Awesome example given that no soldiers are allowed to carry guns at fort hood.

Yeah, there are a lot better examples of 'if only more people had guns' = retarded, especially in Texas.

Literally assassinated a President in Texas and back in the good ol' days (when everyone had guns) Texas had it's own nation shaking massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman I wonder how many people he could have taken out if he had an assault rifle

Also feel free to point out that the group paying 70% of income taxes holds 83% of the financial wealth in America and their financial wealth continues to grow while those below them either stagnate or shrink.

Directorman posted:

Here's a letter from today's Omaha World Herald (my local paper)

I read the letters every day out of the same sort of sick masochism I get from reading the Free thread--and yeah, worse stuff has been said in Freep, and even other letters have been more reprehensible in content...but something about this one just set me off.

The Democrats were historically a party of the south and filled with racists. When civil rights became a big issue and LBJ helped force through civil rights laws that prevented racial discrimination, the Southern Democrats became fed up with the Democratic party. Guess who welcomed all those racist southerners with open arms, and who those people still vote for today.

"Individual Freedom" as a superseding ideology is to let people refuse to serve coloreds and foreigners at their diner in Bumfuck Mississippi or Shithole Arizona.

I can sympathize with the fact that if you have financial obligations and cannot meet them due to a change in expected income it can be a source of very real stress, regardless of where you are on the financial ladder, but this is just absolute bullshit:

A goddamn accountant and he's so disconnected from reality that the concept of marginal utility escapes him? And these are people handling investments. The thought, that people responsible for investing and saving money are this inept at personal accounting, is both scary and enlightening.

Yes and no. You have yearly fluctuations with some higher usage rates and overall a reduction in abuse/addiction rates. So I'd say that the central thrust of his statement misses the point, you don't legalize a drug to reduce its consumption, you legalize it to reduce turning people into addicts and criminals.

Well, yeah, the second half is basically what happened in Portugal. They decriminalized (not legalized) drugs and actual got people to voluntarily accept treatment for addiction instead of throwing users in a surprise sex hole with violent criminals for several years.

quote:

Other factors had also played their part however, Goulao, a medical doctor added.
“This development can not only be attributed to decriminalisation but to a confluence of treatment and risk reduction policies.”

PostNouveau posted:

What is it with certain people not just being ignorant, but actually reveling in it? She freely admits to making criticisms without knowing anything about what she was criticizing, and does so proudly, as though she doesn't have the time to be bothered with things like reading.

What makes online gaming so attractive? Is it the legions of utter morons you can encounter? The thrill of being called a "friend of the family enjoyable human being jew" by someone whose voice hasn't dropped yet? I deal with enough morons in my day-to-day life, I want my recreational activities to be as free from them as possible.

Because AI is still unmitigated garbage, even compared to whiny 13 year old shitlords, and you can mute chat if you aren't playing with people you know. Also, you can't troll AI and make it ragequit.